The set design of Good Thing is evenly split between a home inhabited by three young lower class kids struggling with the trials and tribulations of life. ... This unique design structure makes the actors of the play utilize the fourth wall in a manner of almost two sets of fourth wall, the audience is addressed as a whole yet it is still the left side which reacts more to the plight of the younger group, while the right side is privy to the dealings of the Roy family (the counselors). This is not overwhelming, and is not at all a negative, but rather a product of the set design. ... Her se...

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If this topic evaluated from the positive perspective; in spite of the fact that parts of the wedding and marriage convention do change, the purposes for marriage and the conventions are still set up. ... They were either natural guys who felt the vicinity of a female soul so emphatically that they decided to live their lives as ladies or the other way around, females who decided to live as men. ladies can be expressed as "The wear their improved hairdo in the same route as the men, and go to war with bows and shafts and seek after amusement, constantly in organization with men; each has a lad...

• Word Count: 876
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In the early 1970s, studies reported that, since 1945, 99 percent of the homes in the United States had acquired at least one television set (Mander, 1978, p.24). ... Author Win sets forth one theory: all the hours that disturbed children spend involved in a television experience dull the boundaries between the real and the unreal (Winn, 1977, p. 74). ... In a recent interview given while Congress was fighting the problem of violence on television, Chris McClean, aide to Senator Exon, commented on the days when the Hayes Commission set standards: "Ed Sullivan didn't show Elvis from t...

• Word Count: 1703
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And while poor treatment in Islamic cultures can be attributed to radical regional customs which are easily debunked by the words of the Koran, Hindu culture, with its lack of an offical religious text, has little to govern the treatment of women by, thus opening up the door for tradition and public opinion to serve as Hindu law. ... It was also held that the perfect wife was one without a voice or opinion, so for a devout wife, her main purpose for living was to serve her husband. ... Often when the dowry was not paid or the desired amount was not met, the bride would be set on fire by the ...

• Word Count: 1848
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Judge Black's logical explanation of his ruling help set a precedent that other same-sex plaintiffs would use in the coming years in their respective states. ... The two majority judges claimed that they could not ignore the precedent set by Baker vs Nelson in 1972. ... Therefore, the majority judges in the Sixth Circuit Court Appeals Case ruled in the exact same way as the precedent set before them. ... Lastly, the Tennessee plaintiffs asked if the court would please throw out the precedent set by the Baker vs Nelson case. ...

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The program serves as a preparation of how to effectively handle divorce if it would happen in the future and also, how to help and understand their peers better when the problem arises. ... The trial should begin prior to the separation and for a set period of time. ...

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The woman becomes the wife and mother with certain tasks and the man accordingly becomes the husband and father with his own set of prescribed tasks and behaviors. ... On the other hand, assumes the power to feel, nurture, serve and manage domestic and interpersonal life of the home. ...

• Word Count: 1083
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In other words, the 10 hour work day further segregated men and women and those employers that wanted to hire women were now held to a stricter set of rules, consequently even less women were employable. ... Ironically, the very fact that the Ladies needed women to serve them precluded the serving women to be regarded as "True" women. ...

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Their actions have created confusion on an issue that requires clarity" (Washington Post, 2/02/2004), This statement alone, sets acceptance of homosexual marriages back almost another twenty years. ... Obviously, the supposed ages of experience that have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society, are completely false. ...

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There is a social unrest in America these days regarding the Government's denial of the right to marry to many homosexual. Those completely against gay marriage, mainly conservatives and neo-Christian politicians who are using religious arguments to establish that sexuality is an atrocity. While on the other side you have liberals who are fighting for the equal treatment of the gay community which is clearly supported by the 10th and 14th amendment in the United States Constitution. While the belief system of the politicians is what they are basing their ideals on, this country was founde...

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A government adviser wrote in 1934, "many workers can escape the economic problems of old age only by dying before their period of superannuation sets in.... Our retirement policies still best serve the traditional family: a paid worker who is usually the husband and an unpaid homemaker who is the wife. ...

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A Cross Cultural Perspective of polygyny As an institution, polygyny, the social arrangement that permits a man to have more than one wife at the same time, exists in all parts of the world. From our present knowledge, there are very few primitive tribes in which a man is not allowed to enter into more than one union. In fact, ethnologists now believe that only one to two percent of all species may be monogamous (Tucker 1985). None of the simian species are strictly monogamous; our closest relatives, the chimpanzees, practice a form of group marriage. Among the 849 human societies examined b...

• Word Count: 3116
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